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Conference paper (published)
Quality assured image file format migration in large digital object repositories
This article gives an overview on how different components developed by the SCAPE project are intended to be used in composite file format migration workflows; it will explain how the SCAPE platform can be employed to make sure that the workflows can be used to migrate very large image collections...Schlarb, Sven ; Cliff, Peter ; May, Peter ; Palmer, William ; Hahn, Matthias …
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Capturing and replaying streaming media in a web archive – a British Library case study
A prerequisite for digital preservation is to be able to capture and retain the content which is considered worth preserving. This has been a significant challenge or web archiving, especially for websites with embedded streaming media content, which cannot be copied via a simple HTTP request to a URL. This...Hockx-Yu, Helen ; Crawford, Lewis ; Coram, Roger ; Johnson, Stephen
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Implementing metadata that guides digital preservation services
Effective digital preservation depends on a set of preservation services that work together to ensure that digital objects can be preserved for the long-term. These services need digital preservation metadata, in particular, descriptions of the properties that digital objects may have and descriptions of the requirements that guide digital preservation...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam
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LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs
As we develop our ability to preserve digital collections through techniques such as migration and emulation, the decision process of what action to take and when to take it becomes increasingly complex. Cost is a crucial factor to consider but the financial implications of preservation planning decisions are not typically...Wheatley, Paul ; Hole, Brian
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LIFE3: A predictive costing tool for digital collections
Predicting the costs of long-term digital preservation is a crucial yet complex task for even the largest repositories and institutions. For smaller projects and individual researchers faced with preservation requirements, the problem is even more overwhelming, as they lack the accumulated experience of the former. Yet being able to estimate...Hole, Brian ; Lin, Li ; McCann, Patrick ; Wheatley, Paul
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A framework for distributed preservation workflows
The Planets project is developing a service-oriented environment for the definition and evaluation of preservation strategies for human-centric data. It focuses on the question of logically preserving digital materials, as opposed to the physical preservation of content bit-streams. This includes the development of preservation tools for the automated characterization, migration,...Schmidt, Rainer ; King, Ross ; Steeg, Fabian ; Melms, Peter ; Jackson, Andrew …
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A METS based information package for long term accessibility of web archives
The British Library’s web archive comprises several terabyte of harvested websites. Like other content streams this data should be ingested into the library’s central preservation repository. The repository requires a standardized Submission- and Archival Information Package. Harvested Websites are stored in Archival Information Packages (AIP). Each AIP is described by...Enders, Markus
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Deal with conflict, capture the relationship: the case of digital object properties
Properties of digital objects play a central role in digital preservation. All key preservation services are linked via a common understanding of the properties which describe the digital objects in a repository's care. Unfortunately, different services deal with properties on sometimes different levels of description. While, for example, a preservation...Dappert, Angela
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Using Automated Dependency Analysis to generate representation information
To preserve access to digital content, we must preserve the representation information that captures the intended interpretation of the data. In particular, we must be able to capture performance dependency requirements, i.e. to identify the other resources that are required in order for the intended interpretation to be constructed successfully....Jackson, Andrew
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ArchivePress: A Really Simple Solution to Archiving Blog Content
Blog archiving and preservation is not a new challenge. Current solutions are commonly based on typical web archiving activities, whereby a crawler is configured to harvest a copy of the blog and return the copy to a web archive. Yet this is not the only solution, nor is it always...Pennock, Maureen ; Davis, Richard
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Practical analysis of TIFF file size reductions achievable through compression
This paper presents results of a practical analysis into the effects of three main lossless TIFF compression algorithms – LZW, ZIP and Group 4 – on the storage requirements for a small set of digitized materials. In particular we are interested in understanding which algorithm achieves a greater reduction in...May, Peter ; Davies, Kevin
LZW, Group 4, LibTiff, TIFF, ZIP, compression, and ImageMagick
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Are you ready? Assessing whether organisations are prepared for digital preservation
In the last few years digital preservation has started to transition from a theoretical discipline to one where real solutions are beginning to be used. The Planets project has analyzed the readiness of libraries, archives and related organizations to begin to use the outputs of various digital preservation initiatives (and,...Sinclair, Pauline ; Billenness, Clive ; Duckworth, James ; Farquhar, Adam ; Humphreys, Jane …
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People mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project
Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in an unusable state. Detecting, identifying and ultimately fixing these...Wheatley, Paul ; Middleton, Bo ; Double, Jodie ; Jackson, Andrew ; McGuinness, Rebecca
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Not just a British library: enabling a global discovery experience
Within the walls of the British Library lies one of the greatest collections in the world. However, the value of the British Library lies not only in the preservation of heritage items, but also in its determination to keep pace with the many changes in the global information environment. As...Flanagan, Dimity
open access; repositories; discovery; persistent identifiers; text and data mining; digitisation
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Lecture
The William Dyce and Edward Machell Cox collections of art sale catalogues in the British Library
In the flyer for this talk I called sale catalogues ‘unassuming’ and ‘half-hidden’. ‘Unassuming’ because they often are simple lists of works, ‘half-hidden’ because, in the British Library at least, they are not always catalogued separately and therefore are easy to miss. They are, however, extremely important for the study...Michaelides, Chris
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Structuring curatorial responsibilities to incorporate sabbaticals, research etc
A.W. Pollard, a keeper of printed books at the British Museum at the beginning of last century and an important Shakespearean scholar in his own right, remarked that one of the incentives to his career as a published writer was the low pay of the curator. So the simple way...Bury, Stephen
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The sound of artists' books
Artists’ books – any books – are capable of sound, whether dropped, as in Keith Godard’s otherwise text-less and image-less Sounds (1972), or, fluttering noisily, drying out, in the chill spring wind, on the monastery roof in Sergo Paradjanov’s film, The Colour of Pomegranates (1969).Bury, Stephen
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Conference paper (published)
Issues raised by a 'rap' translation of a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov 'Kamennaia baba'
Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Time of Place: Louis-Sebastien Mercier and the hours of the day
I was recently reading The White Cities, Joseph Roth’s reports from France, 1925–1939, when, amongst many other moments, I was struck by the following passage: The manufacturers have their villas on the other side of the Rhône. That’s where the workers live – not in villas, alas, but in tenements....Shaw, Matthew J.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
How to look after your Collection - A basic guide
Many philatelists understand that they are the guardians of the material in their collections for themselves and for future owners. It is unfortunate when some collectors show a disregard for looking after their collection and dismiss comment with a remark like “it will be OK in my life time”. It...Beech, David R.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The epic unwriting of Empire: a case study. Khlebnikov -nash edinstvennyi poet-epik XX veka
I was discussing with a friend the problems I was having in introducing my topic or theme. The friend in question is one of the artists who has been working on the film which I will show later. He had read through my text, which was, I thought, mainly finished,...Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Translating the enemy
This paper has three sources or “causes”, two of them “prior”, the third “final”. These are: firstly, the translation by the present writer of a fairly large group of poems and texts by the poet Velimir Khlebnikov (b1885, d1922), intended as a contribution to an anthology of English language translations...Chadwick, Brian
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The British Library Philatelic Collections 1998 to 2005
This Paper is the third in a series that has reported to the Society and the philatelic world on the activities of the British Library Philatelic Collections. The first was given on 1st December, 1988 by my predecessor R F “Bob” Schoolley-West FRPSL and the second I gave on 9th...Beech, David R.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Philately of the Edwardian era as shown in its literature
As this Paper is being given in 2006 no one can be alive who has any meaningful experience of philately in the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII. To discover virtually anything at all the researcher must examine the literature and the archives of the period. As far as...Beech, David R.
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Collective intelligence or intelligent collecting: alternative survival strategies for audiovisual archives in the Information Age
Despite the evident prescriptive statement in the sub-title to this presentation, this sketch of the way things appear to me to be is intended to generate collaborative inquiry within IASA and its institutional members rather than present strategic actions that can be applied on return from this Conference.Clark, Chris
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Where are they now? The dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
La adquisición del Amadís de Gaula, Libros I-IV (Zaragoza, 1508) por el Museo Británico
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Preservation planning for emerging formats at the British Library
The British Library and the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries have been collecting various forms of born-digital digital publications since 2013 as part of what is known as Non-Print Legal Deposit (NPLD). In 2017, the UK Legal Deposit Libraries established an Emerging Formats project to look at selected types of...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; Smith, Caylin ; Jenkins, Jeremy ; Cooke, Ian
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Identifying digital preservation requirements: Digital Preservation Strategy and collection profiling at the British Library
The British Library is increasingly a digital library. Over past decades, it has built up significant collections of digital content covering a very wide range of content types. In addition to the increasing amounts of digital content acquired by purchase or donation, the Library and its partners have also invested...Day, Michael ; McDonald, Ann ; Kimura, Akiko ; Pennock, Maureen
preservation planning, institutional contexts of preservation, collection content profiling, and digital preservation
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Sustainability assessments at the British Library: Formats, frameworks and findings
File format assessments have been the subject of much debate in and outside of the preservation community in the past decade. Recognizing the unique structural, operational, and collecting context of the British Library, the Library’s digital preservation team recently initiated new format assessment work to deliver recommendations on which file...Pennock, Maureen ; Wheatley, Paul ; May, Peter
file formats, British Library, assessments, transparency, sustainability, and preservation master
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Conference paper (published)
A Latinised Arabic for All? Issues of representation, purpose and audience
This paper reviews two major issues which account for much of the variation in representing Arabic using Latin characters. Since the Latinisation of Arabic entails encoding additional phonetic information(by adding short vowels), how we choose to represent Arabic for Latinisation becomes a central issue. This representation may either reflect the...Aboelezz, Mariam
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Conference paper (published)
Latinised Arabic and connections to bilingual ability
As software support for non-Latin scripts is becoming more readily available, the continuing use of Latinised forms in online discourse highlights an interesting phenomenon. This paper focuses on Latinised Arabic (LA) as one manifestation of this trend. While there appears to be significant variation in the conventions used to Latinise...Aboelezz, Mariam
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Unlocking the Wandering Minstrels’ Archive: a case study in creating a database of performances
The Wandering Minstrels Orchestra was an orchestra of noblemen and gentlemen which gave hundreds of private 'smoking concerts' in London and charity concerts across England between 1860 and 1898. Surviving scrapbooks of photographs, press cuttings, programmes, letters and drawings relating to the Minstrels, many of them now preserved at the...Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Bibliographic records as 'Big Data': seeking harmony in music metadata
The collaborative research project ‘A Big Data History of Music’ draws on a disparate array of music catalogues created over nearly two centuries. During that time, many different cataloguing rules have existed; national and international standards have developed for cataloguing printed materials, and, in many countries, separate protocols established for...Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ejemplares del Quijote de la British Library: algunos datos sobre las procedencias de las ediciones de 1604/1605
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
La biblioteca de F.W. Cosens, su dispersión y las adquisiciones de la Biblioteca Nacional de España
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Indicios de procedencias en libros españoles antiguos de la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Abstract
Uncertain Date, Uncertain Place: Interpreting the History of Jewish Communities in the Byzantine Empire using GIS
The presentation will address the problem of how to display uncertain historical data in a web-based Geographical Information System (GIS). In recent years the use of internet GIS has allowed the general public to access large volumes of spatial data. Although GIS has been applied in specific areas of academic...Rees, Gethin
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Presentation
Cyber Attacks: Is Artificial Intelligence the New Defence?
From drones and ransomware to disinformation, new technologies are enabling new kinds of conflict. Is a cyber attack an act of war? With artificial intelligence poised to revolutionise the speed and impact of attacks, how can we prevent cyberspace turning into a battleground? Our expert panel discusses these and other...Taddeo, Mariarosaria ; Finkelstein, Anthony ; Pogrebna, Ganna ; Leeming, Cal